Horses on pasture may be affected by equine motor neuron disease.

Equine Motor Neuron Disease: A Review of Clinical and Experimental Studies

s Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is associated with and likely caused by prolonged vitamin E deficiency. Horses without access to at least seasonal pasture and fed forages and concentrates with low concentrations of vitamin E are at risk of developing EMND. At risk horses should be orally supplemented with additional vitamin E.

Eosinophilic Enteritis in Horses with Motor Neuron Disease

BACKGROUND Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is a neuromuscular disorder that affects adult horses. Although EMND has been linked to vitamin E deficiency, its etiopathogenesis is poorly understood. OBJECTIVES To describe clinical features, laboratory results, and postmortem findings in a series of young horses with motor neuron disease (MND). ANIMALS A herd of 15 young Andalusian horses wi...

Acquired equine motor neuron disease.

Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is an acquired neuromuscular disease of horses that was first recognized in 1985 and reported in a preliminary report often horses in 1 990.3 The disease is characterized pathologically by degeneration of motor neurons in the ventral horns of the spinal cord and in selected brain stem nuclei. Death of motor neurons results in secondary axonal degeneration and ...

Neurodegenerative Diseases of Horses: Equine Motor Neuron Disease and Equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy

Vitamin E deficiency and risk of equine motor neuron disease

BACKGROUND Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is a spontaneous neurologic disorder of adult horses which results from the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain stem. Clinical manifestations, pathological findings, and epidemiologic attributes resemble those of human motor neuron disease (MND). As in MND the etiology of the disease is not known. We evaluated the predispositi...